Aurelia Segatti

Senior Researcher

Aurelia Segatti holds a PhD in Political Science and an MA in African Studies majoring (political science) from the Centre of African Studies (CEAN – Bordeaux). Her thesis was devoted to the transformation of South African immigration policy in the post-apartheid period.

Her research interests are public policy, immigration policy analysis, regional policy coherence and local migration dynamics. Research Director of the French Institute in South Africa between 2004 and 2008, she was then appointed Senior Research Fellow with the Institute of Research for Development from 2008 to 2010 on a joint research programme with Loren Landau looking at the governance of mobility in selected African cities. Based at the African Centre for Migration & Society, she is currently involved in two international research programmes: the Research Programme Consortium ‘Migrating Out of Poverty’ in which she is Theme Leader for Policy research and the French National Research Agency XenAfPol Programme on Xenophobic violence in Africa (for past and current research projects: see Projects below). Aurelia coordinates the ACMS Lunchtime Seminar Series and teaches on the MA programme and other ACMS modules.

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Publications

[Anonymous] (In Press).  The Challenge of the Threshold. Border Closures and Migration Movements in Africa. (Jocelyne Streiff-Fénart, Aurelia Segatti, Ed.).
Fauvelle-Aymar, C., & Segatti A. (In Press).  People, Space and Politics: An Exploration of Factors Explaining the 2008 Anti-Foreigner Violence in South Africa. (Loren B. Landau, Ed.).Exorcising The Demon Within.
Landau, L. B., & Segatti A. (In Press).  The Southern Crossroads: Human Mobility, Governance and Development in South Africa. (J. Stiglitz, J. Cortina, F. Siddique, Ed.).The Initiative for Policy Dialogue.
Vearey, J. (2011).  Migration and Health in South Africa: Implications for Development. (Aurelia Segatti, Loren B. Landau, Ed.).Contemporary Migration to South Africa: A Regional Development Issue. 121-136.
Landau, L. B., Segatti A., Misago J. P., Ngwato T. P., Monson T., & Vigneswaran D. (2011).  Exorcising the Demons Within: Xenophobia, Violence, and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa. (Loren B. Landau, Ed.).Exorcising the Demons within: Xenophobia, Violence and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa . 1-275. Abstract
Fauvelle-Aymar, C., & Segatti A. (2011).  People, Space and Politics: An Exploration of Factors Explaining the 2008 Anti-Foreigner Violence in South Africa. (Loren B. Landau, Ed.).Exorcising the Demons within: Xenophobia, Violence and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa .
Polzer Ngwato, T., & Segatti A. (2011).  From Defending Migrant Rights to New Political Subjectivities: Gauteng Migrants’ Organisations After May 2008. (Loren B. Landau, Ed.).Exorcising the Demons within: Xenophobia, Violence and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa .
Segatti, A. (2011).  Mobilisation Against Foreign Traders in South Africa. 1-10.
Segatti, A. (2011).  Introduction: Migration to South Africa: Regional Challenge vs. National Instruments & Interests?. (Aurelia Segatti, Loren B. Landau, Ed.).Contemporary Migration to South Africa.
Landau, L. B., Segatti A., & Misago J. P. (2011).  Governing Migration and Urbanisation in South African Municipalities – Developing Approaches to Counter Poverty and Social Fragmentation.
Segatti, A. (2011).  Responding to Human Mobility: Is Local Government Set up for Failure?. 1-8.
Segatti, A. (2011).  Turning South African Immigration Policy Into a Development Instrument; What It Means & What It Takes. (Aurelia Segatti, Loren B. Landau, Ed.).Contemporary Migration to South Africa. Ch. 1.
Segatti, A. (2011).  Migration to South Africa: Regional Challenges versus National Instruments and Interests. (Aurelia Segatti, Loren B. Landau, Ed.).Contemporary Migration to South Africa: A Regional Development Issue. 9-30.
Segatti, A., & Ellis S. (2011).  South Africa & International Migration: The Role of Skilled Labour. (Aurelia Segatti, Loren B. Landau, Ed.).Contemporary Migration to South Africa.
Segatti, A. (2011).  Reforming South African Immigration Policy in the Postapartheid Period (1990–2010). (Aurelia Segatti, Loren B. Landau, Ed.).Contemporary Migration to South Africa: A Regional Development Issue. 31-66.
Segatti, A. (2011).  Migration to South Africa in the aftermaths of the global financial crisis: an analysis of impacts, trends and responses. (H. Duncan, J. Nieuwenhuysen, S. Neerup, Ed.).International Migration in Uncertain Times.
Segatti, A., & Landau L. B. (2011).  Contemporary Migration to South Africa: A Regional Development Issue.
Ellis, S., & Segatti A. (2011).  The Role of Skilled Labor. (Aurelia Segatti, Loren B. Landau, Ed.).Contemporary Migration to South Africa: A Regional Development Issue. 67-80.
Segatti, A. (2011).  The Southern African Development Community: a walk away from the free movement of persons?. (A. Pecoud, Ed.).A Regional Approach to Free Movement.
Landau, L. B., Segatti A., & Misago J. P. (2011).  Mobility and Municipalities: Local Authorities, Local Impacts, and the Challenges of Movement. (Aurelia Segatti, Loren B. Landau, Ed.).Contemporary Migration to South Africa: A Regional Development Issue. 81-104.